When your
Coach knows how to interpret your “biomarkers”, he can control your
subconscious reactions, progressively shrink your target area and, in the end, turn
your ability to deliver every pitch directly into your Catcher’s target into its
own “biomarker”.

Dismissing these realities is a huge mistake!

Ignoring
your “fight or flight” response means, despite your best intentions, you’ll
never really know where any pitch is going to end up. With your subconscious
processing information 50,000 times faster than you can think, conscious
movement corrections can only come from managing the messages your movements
send to your subconscious.

It’s how we manage your “fight or flight” prompts that
separates us from other Pitching Coach. To fast track your “fight or flight”
management, contact us.

This is your body’s reality.

As an example,
you walk a balance beam and swing one foot away from the beam, to offset the
weight shift created by your foot movement and without any conscious thought,
your head moves in the opposite direction away from the beam.

Your head’s
response is a “biomarker” and is used in one of 2 ways …

1. Informational
- Your head position relative to the beam tells you there’s a weight shift on
the opposite side of the beam.

Your foot placements produce essential “biomarkers”.

Something as simple as
your initial foot placements tell you everything you need to know about the “biomarker”
patterns and results that’ll follow.

Your foot placements force
you to complete your front leg lift with one of these three “biomarkers”.

1. Your back-knee ending
up over your back foot signifies your
weight is over your back foot.

2. Your back-knee settling
in front of your back foot tells you
your weight is in front of your back foot.

3. Your back-knee finishing
to the second base side of your back foot
means your weight is centered just in front of your back foot.

Your foot placement “biomarkers” determine your results.

Your weight over your back foot.

To move down the mound, you make some action that’ll
shift your weight toward your target (a “biomarker”) and, as you move down the
mound, to offset your forward weight shift, you lose control of your throwing
arm path and your command (both “biomarkers”).

Your weight ends up in front of your back foot.

With your weight in front of your back foot, gravity
takes over your movement down the mound. You use your throwing arm path to try
and keep your body in balance and, as above, you lose control of your throwing
arm path and your command (both “biomarkers”).

Your weight is centered just in front of your back
foot.

With your weight centered around your core (another
“biomarker”), instead of moving down the mound, you use your current throwing
action to keep your lower body attached to your upper body (a “biomarker”).
Instead of using your throwing arm to keep
your balance, you use your throwing arm to get
your body back in balance (a “biomarker”). With your body pulling your throwing
hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch (a “biomarker”), you expect
every pitch to travel directly into your Catcher’s target (another “biomarker”).

How to make your time more productive.

Your “biomarkers” are separate from your actions. The
instant you begin treating your “biomarkers” as a controllable action becomes
the instant you begin spinning your wheels. The only way to change any “biomarker”
is to adjust the actions associated with it.

Once you completely understand the power of “biomarkers”,
you understand every “biomarker” relates in some way to your front leg lift
body position. Armed with this information, instead of wasting your time trying
to change the way your “biomarkers” look, you merely adjust your front leg lift
and, without stressing over your movements, know you’ll challenge every hitter on
every pitch (another, and perhaps, your most important “biomarker”).

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

This is your body’s reality.

Your body is driven to use your arms to maintain your
balance. Your hand separation tells you the exact moment you begin using your
arms for balance and, armed with this information, reveals how you can improve
your command.

- An out-of-control reaction or
- A planned reaction to a well-choreographed upper body
movement.

You can’t afford to lose control of your hand separation.

When your hand separation becomes a balance-promoting reaction to your stride,
you can only hopeeach pitch ends up
in your target and here’s why?

- In this instance, to move down the mound, you must stride.
- To offset your stride’s forward weight shift and to keep
your body in balance, your hands separate.
- Until your front foot gets back on the ground and your
body gets back in balance, your hand separation indicates your throwing arm
path is out of control.
- As a result, you lose the natural ability to deliver more
than 2 pitches in a row into your target.

To produce elite command, your hands take you out of your starting
position.

When your hand separation becomes the first thing you see as
you move out of your starting position, you expecteach
pitch to travel directly into your target and here’s why?

- By ending your front leg lift with your body in balance,
your only alternative to move down the mound becomes a choreographed upper body
rotation.
- By association, as you move out of your starting position,
your upper body rotation makes your hand separation the first thing you see
happen.
- As you move down the mound, your instinctive urge for
self-preservation senses your rotational imbalance and, to protect you from
falling on your nose, places your front foot back on the ground.
- With your
stride interrupting your body’s twisting action, the only way to restore your
balance becomes using your throwing arm to make a throwing action.

Monday, August 6, 2018

This is your body’s reality.

Because your body is driven to keep itself in balance, your
initial foot placements determine your stride. When you come into your starting
position with ...

A front-to-back
movement and a tilted core, your stride moves you down the mound.

A front
leg lift that promotes an upright core, your stride becomes a response to an upper
body spinning action.

When pitching, you really don’t want your stride to be an action.

When you put your body in a position where your stride shifts
your weight from back-to-front, you can only hopeeach pitch ends up in your target and here’s why?

With your starting position giving you no
alternative but to shift your weight from back-to-front, to maintain your
balance, you're forced to use your throwing arm to offset this forward weight
shift.

You continue using your throwing arm to keep
your balance until your body gets back in balance.

While you’re using your throwing arm for balance,
you lose complete control over your throwing arm path.

Besides having no control over your throwing arm
path, you also lose the ability to deliver more than 2 pitches in a row into
your target.

The longer you fail to control your throwing arm path, the
more you’ll miss your target over the plate. The more softballs you serve up, the
more reasons you give baseball people to decide your competitive pitching
career should be over.

When pitching, you really need to make your stride just happen.

When you end your starting position with an upright core,
you expecteach pitch to travel directly into your target
and here’s why?

Your vertical core gives your body an axis around
which to rotate.

When you come out of your starting position with
an upper body rotation, to protect you from falling on your nose, your
instinctive urge for self-preservation places your front foot back on the
ground.

With your stride interrupting your body’s
twisting action, the only way to restore your balance becomes using your throwing
arm to make a throwing action.

Because of this spontaneous reaction, your throwing
hand continually comes through the same productive release window and,
consequently, delivers every pitch directly into your Catcher’s target.

By making sure you end your starting position with your core
in an upright position, you use your reactionary stride to challenge every opponent
with pinpoint command, deceptive throwing arm speed and late ball movement.

If you want
to know what it takes to end your starting position with your core in an
upright position, contact us.